Significant Events
- May 13 Arthur Phillip sets sails with 11 ships of criminals to Botany Bay, Australia
- May 14 Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US constitution
1787 in Music
- Aug 10 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his chamber piece "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"
- Aug 24 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his violin and piano sonata in A, K526
- Oct 29 Opera "Don Giovanni", music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte premieres at the National Theater of Bohemia in Prague
World Leaders in 1787
Louis XVI
King of France
William Pitt the Younger
British Prime Minister
Famous People in 1787
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Classical Musician and Composer
Karl Ferdinand von Graefe
Louis-Jacques Daguerre
Sojourner TruthFamous Weddings
- Mar 11 Naval officer Horatio Nelson (28) weds Frances Nisbet at Montpelier Estate on the island of Nevis
Famous Deaths
- Jan 1 Arthur Middleton, American signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 44
- Feb 12 Ruggiero Boscovich, Italian physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at 75
- Feb 13 Ruđer Bošković, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)
- Feb 13 Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1717)
- Mar 2 Jean Allamand, Swiss-Dutch natural philosopher, dies at 73
